Scroll to specific widget

ByteAtATime · November 2, 2025, 4:45pm

Hey there, I’m new to iced. I’m trying to make a chat app for learning purposes, and I want to be able to let the user click on a reply and automatically scroll to that reply. I see that there’s a scroll_to method on scrollable, but I can’t seem to figure out a god way to get the absolute offset of a container inside the scrollable.

airstrike · November 2, 2025, 6:56pm

I wrote an example for doing that in my sweeten crate, but it’s in the 0.14.0-dev branch which isn’t 100% on track with the latest iced from the master branch on github, but is hopefully close

github.com/airstrike/sweeten

examples/scroll_to_item.rs

0.14.0-dev

use std::sync::LazyLock;

use iced::widget::{button, center, column, container, pop, scrollable, text};
use iced::{Center, Element, Fill, Length, Task};
use sweeten::operation::position;
use sweeten::widget::row;

fn main() -> iced::Result {
    iced::application(
        "sweetened iced • lazy loading example",
        App::update,
        App::view,
    )
    .window_size((800.0, 350.0))
    .centered()
    .run()
}

#[derive(Default)]
struct App;

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in theory you should be able to copy and paste sweeten::widget::row and sweeten::operation::position into a project that uses the latest iced from master on github and solve any compiler errors until it works

ByteAtATime · November 2, 2025, 11:12pm

You’re a lifesaver, this is amazing, tysm!